Import Export Business

This Import Export Business blog is dedicated to providing you with news, information and resources about the business of international trade. You will find the information useful to both business owners who wish to begin exporting or expand their export markets and new entrepreneurs seeking the basics of how to get started.

Monday, January 07, 2008

Import Export Business Decision Making

Decision making is a key factor to your success in the ImportExport business or any business for that matter.

This post may offend some people but quite frankly if that iswhat it takes to help you have the guts to make a decision,then so be it.

Many times in the past year I had people who were inquiringabout starting an Import Export business. They would eithermake repeated calls or send multiple emails.

Often, these people were looking at our Import Export selfstudy course and comparing whether to pay the $424 and goit on their own, or max out their credit cards or take outa 2nd mortgage on their house to pay the $8000+ fee some ofour competitors charge in order to have someone there to"mentor" them and hold their hand through the process ofbecoming successful (oh yes, and to give them that magiccertification that opens the doors to the land of Oz).

After much contemplation on these increasing number of phonecalls and emails from people who can not seem to make adecision without someone holding their hand and telling themwhat to do I reached a conclusion that it really was nottheir fault.

In life, we always seem to have someone there giving usorders or directions on what to do and how to do it.

Someone else is always either making the decisions for usor providing us with the direction we must go. So it shouldnot be a wonder to me that most people are unable to makea decision on their own when it comes to starting andoperating an import or export business, right?

One of the conclusions I have reached about why these peopleseem to find it so difficult to make a decision is so theycan blame someone else when and if something goes wrong.

The most classic case of indecision was a man who reviewedour Import Export Business toolkit course and was ready topurchase it. A day later he called and wanted to know aboutthe China trading business opportunity we have advertisedat our web site.

I explained to him what the China trading program was allabout and that I do "not" recommend that someone try to doboth business programs at the same time.

The gentleman seem very astute, intelligent, articulate andI genuinely felt that based on our initial conversation hehad a good chance for success in the import export business.

Now, however, he was wavering. Which program should he gowith? I told him that each has it's own merits but that hewould have to weigh those merits against what his corestrengths were and go with whatever one would allow him touse those merits.

He followed up a day or two later insisting that I make thedecision for him. I could see where this was going. Had Itold him to go with one or the other and he failed tolaunch into success he could then blame me for steering himin the wrong direction.

I finally told him that he should forget about the importexport business altogether because the first requirement forbeing successful in it (or any business) is the ability toMAKE A DECISION. And, if he could not make a small decisionsuch as this, then he would fail.

This post is written for anyone who is considering enteringthe import export business - your success is not at the endof your credit card limit (i.e. paying thousands of dollarsto get certified will not guarantee you success).

Had the gentleman referred to above had what it takes to besuccessful in this business (or any business) he would havemade a decision and lived with it instead of depending uponsomeone else to make his life decisions for him.

We all have to make decisions in life, for personal, financialor business reasons. We all will and do make mistakes andlive to regret them. No one is perfect, so why depend onsome other imperfect human being to make your life decisionsfor you?

Decision making is the key element to success in life andin the import export business. You can make those decisionsand must make them if you are to be successful.

About Me

Started Coble International in 1988 with the express purpose of providing Export Import marketing assistance to manufacturers and providing B2B products and services to the global B2B community. Our business expanded exponentially in the late 1990's when we launched our website ImportExportHelp.com. The Internet was and continues to be the best marketing tool for ALL businesses, anywhere in the world. The Import Export business training courses we once offered have been used by community colleges, busineses and individuals around the world and our B2B marketing databases have been used by companies in 70 countries to expand their markets.